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Originally Posted by JackTrade
The future indeed. I'm probably punching way above my weight here, but IMHO an HTML file imported into Sigil and saved as an EPUB should - when opened in any EPUB reader - perform exactly as the HTML file performs when opened in Firefox or Chrome.
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No. It shouldn't. Epubs are not webpages. Epub only complies with a subset of html/css. Even if Sigil dutifully previewed your code in the manner you believe it should, there is very little hope that it would do so (with any consistency) on a range of devices/apps.
If you're going to be successful at creating epubs, the first thing you're going to need completely forget about is "how it looks in a browser." It's just not very relevant to ebook-making. Because there will never be (universal) full-support for html/css in the epub specifications (let alone universal compliance with those epub specifications and how they are interpreted and rendered in ereaders and ereading apps).